Photo: Laura Ming Wong

Our Mission

  1. Realize new perspectives

  2. Recognize and Release old patterns and stories 

  3. Re-Imagine and create new ones

A PLACE OF HER OWN™ (PLACE)  is an art-based healing organization dedicated to sparking and sustaining the well-being and activism for women. Through PLACE, we aim to grow self-confidence, compassion and leadership amongst women of color, in particular, to affect long lasting systemic change on a personal, family and community level. 

We ask women to speak their truth, step into their power and release self-judgment, guilt and shame rooted in ancestral trauma and colonization. Women claim their right to be as they are and not who they are told they should be

Our Goals

Credits & Reproduction

All Rights Reserved 2023. Developed and presented by Cynthia Tom for A PLACE OF HER OWN™

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Phases

    • Intuitive Collage™

    • Intuit Collage Cards™

    • Beliefs That Hold Me Back. On the Rocks™

    • Family Patterns. How they show up in your life.

  • PLACE Love Letter to Myself™

    Making “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?”

    • Exploring Your Answer through Found Object art making.

    • Create Your Art Statement for the TALK

    • Exhibitions and Artists’ TALKs

    • Panel discussions, Lectures and conversations

Where It All Started

Our Origin Story